by Dan Kempner | May 28, 2019 | Features, Our Father's Legacy
Dan Kempner Columnist Come this fall, I will have been dead for twenty years. That’s a long time and it gives a man room to think. Father Scattered here, in this slow-bending creek, and mixed here and there with the powdered bones of my second wife, I’ve pondered a...
by Dan Kempner | Apr 26, 2019 | Features
Dan Kempner Columnist He was perhaps 30 years old, lean and muscular. Over six feet, tall for a Vietnamese, his long, direct strides took him quickly from the outdoor shower to the deep end of the pool. I was resting at the far end and naturally, he dove into my lane....
by Dan Kempner | Mar 31, 2019 | Features, Legacy Lampoon
Men, after ten years in this organization, this is my swan song. It’s over. I’m finished, out — donesville. This probably won’t even get into print – Ellis has no balls. Go ahead, Jim, I dare you to run it! And as for the publisher, LaBarge, where do I start?...
by Dan Kempner | Feb 24, 2019 | Causing Greatness, Features
Dan Kempner Columnist My dad taught himself to play the guitar so he would have something with which to sing along. He created a four-finger piano style just so he could write songs using a special musical notation invented, for him, by my mom … a notation that...
by Dan Kempner | Feb 1, 2019 | Features, Successful Communities
Dan Kempner Contributing Writer My family moved around a lot in my early years. No, I wasn’t an army brat. My dad was long out of the service by then. In the army he had written for Stars and Stripes, done radio shows on the base and just generally prepared for a...
